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  • noun Plural form of vapidity.

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Examples

  • It was strong because it was clear, and it was clear because he didn't rely on the thumping clichés and vapidities he's lately embraced.

    Amateur Hour at the White House Peggy Noonan 2011

  • The enemy to us all - even the sanctimonious "progressives", may some seismic event deliver their banal&antidiluvian vapidities to the disinfectant of rigour&, perhaps, dispassionate thought is the hollow fashionable pose of this absurd herd of sheep who want only a wee bit more time - to avoid a declaration for reason .... the progressive left is paralysed by lack of conviction.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Obama is a veritable Democratic Reagan (I fear) full of bromides and vapidities, full of sound and fury, appealing to the heart and not the head.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | CNN/UNH Poll: Obama Rockets To Ten-Point Lead 2009

  • But it is one that the British establishment -- whose knowledge of Islam appears to consist largely of the sanitised vapidities of the likes of Karen Armstrong and John Esposito -- have eagerly embraced.

    Dangerous naivety 2008

  • But it is one that the British establishment -- whose knowledge of Islam appears to consist largely of the sanitised vapidities of the likes of Karen Armstrong and John Esposito -- have eagerly embraced.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • They argue that the occupation of Iraq is likely to signal the end of the "Blair Doctrine" on foreign intervention, whence they look forward to Britain's international relations being "once again based on the solid foundation of national interest rather than the vapidities of international solidarity".

    Political schizophrenia? Richard 2006

  • Though he and Team Axlerod are still trying, along with complicit MSM, to characterize people putting careers on the line in DC dealing with the economic crisis as cowards compared to The One who is "ready" to discuss lofty foreign policy vapidities in Mississippi.

    Is Bill Clinton deliberately undermining Obama? Ann Althouse 2008

  • The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The bonfire of the vapidities skip to main

    The bonfire of the vapidities Ed Hollett 2007

  • As this went on, he came to hate the vapidities of the concerto in G major.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • They are "whole teams" beside the "one-horse" vapidities which fail to bear our burdens.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

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